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I had the privilege to guest moderate #TynkerChat on Twitter on March 27th and I thought I’d take this opportunity to answer the chat questions in more depth. It’s hard to share everything in 140 characters! Why would we want to u...

Thoughts on the new Google Sites after a first look – this is long and rambling but hopefully has some useful information as well.

I do think this is going to be a great year! I am loving using Google Classroom with 2nd-8th Grade. I’m even thinking of trying it with 1st Grade soon and maybe even Kindergarten before the end of the year! Our Middle School Language Ar...

Again this year I am not at ISTE and I am participating in the #notatiste15 community on Google+ and Twitter. One of the fun things we do as a community is make our own badges complete with ribbons because if you’re at a conference or e...

At my school, coding is done during classes in the Computer Lab which means it’s typically done on desktop computers. As I have mentioned in the past, my students often use Scratch to create games and to show what they know in...

In past years, I have had students create a website using HTML and CSS and then upload their site to a folder on Google Drive. The directions that I had in place for this do not work with the new Google Drive but it is still possible to do this: C...

Last year all of my Kindergarten through 8th grade students participated in the Hour of Code. It was a truly great week in the lab and amazing to be a part of 15 million+ participating. Plans are underway again this year for the Hour of Code in th...

NOTE: This post is not about educational technology – apologies to my blog readers for the vent that follows. What does over $40K in tuition at a well respected, college preparatory, high school get you? Well, in this case, it got a recent h...